It did so forcefully during the pandemic: Assets on the Fed’s balance sheet ballooned from about $4.2 trillion at the start of 2020 to nearly $9 trillion at its 2022 peak, as it purchased vast ...

The Federal Reserve’s main tool to keep inflation in check and maximize employment — which are its two fundamental functions as mandated by Congress — is its key federal funds rate. The rate ...

The sharp growth in the Fed's consolidated balance sheet has received much attention lately. Some have questioned the Fed's balance-sheet capacity to continuing providing liquidity at home and ...

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is due to hold a press conference half an hour after the release of the policy statement.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said in a speech Tuesday that the central bank erred in slowing down the pace at which it rolls off securities from its balance sheet, arguing that the prior rate ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Lorie Logan, who previously oversaw the Fed's balance sheet activities as manager of the System Open Market Account, said there was "quite a bit of room" for ...

The Federal Reserve reduced its balance sheet by $27 billion during the week ended on May 15 continuing its “quantitative tightening” strategy.

The Fed seems to have shrunk its balance sheet to a place where reserves no longer come to the rescue during times of market pressure, ... pushing the effective fed funds rate too high for a day.

The Federal Reserve’s main tool to keep inflation in check and maximize employment — which are its two fundamental functions as mandated by Congress — is its key federal funds rate. The rate ...